SWAKOPMUND, 18 June 2026 - Education officials, school principals, teachers, learners, community leaders and other stakeholders of education attending the Erongo Region Education conference to assess challenges facing the sector. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 17 June 2026 - Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare pictured with Ovaherero Chief Professor Mutjinde Katjiua during a recent meeting in Windhoek. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

SWAKOPMUND, 17 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses delivering her Sate of the Region Address. She is dressed in the uniform of the National Youth Service, in solidarity with the Namibian youth and their plight in fighting against unemployment. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 16 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses during her State of the Region Address (SORA) stated that the C35 Swakopmund/Henties Bay/Uis Main Road, costing N.dollars 1.03 billion, was 86 per cent complete with 16 kilometres remaining. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 16 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses during her State of the Region Address (SORA) stated that the C35 Swakopmund/Henties Bay/Uis Main Road, costing N.dollars 1.03 billion, was 86 per cent complete with 16 kilometres remaining. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

UIS, 16 June 2026 - Uis in the Erongo Region, was upgraded from settlement to town status, becoming the region’s eighth local authority, ǀGoagoses said in her second State of the Region Address delivered in Swakopmund, with N.dollars 1 million allocated for an Infrastructure Master Plan and N.dollars 8.5 million for an ongoing bulk water pipeline. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 17 June 2026 - In the Picture: Rössing Uranium is Johan Coetzee. Mining companies operating in the Erongo Region invested well over N.dollars 160 million in community development, education, healthcare and skills training over the past financial year, with Rössing Uranium alone accounting for N.dollars 73.5 million, Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses said on Wednesday. (Phot contributed) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 17 June 2026 - Mining companies operating in the Erongo Region invested well over N.dollars 160 million in community development, education, healthcare and skills training over the past financial year, with Rössing Uranium alone accounting for N.dollars 73.5 million, Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses said on Wednesday. (Phot contributed) NAMPA

Racegoers pose for a photo as they arrive on the third day of the Royal Ascot horse racing meeting in Ascot, west of London, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

This photograph shows a view of the flame of the Resistance during the commemorative ceremony for the 86th anniversary of the Appeal of 18 June, in Mont Valerien on June 18, 2026. (Photo by SIMON WOHLFAHRT / POOL / AFP)

Protesters hold a banner reading "Media professionals and citizens, let's defend the news and information – our common good that sustains democracy" during a day of action called by journalists' unions to defend the news industry, at Place de la Bourse central Paris on June 18, 2026. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

President of Rivolier Arnaud Van Robais poses with a rubber bullet launcher at Eurosatory defence and security trade fair in Villepinte on the outskirts of Paris, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (L) reacts as he speaks with President of Rivolier Arnaud Van Robais at Eurosatory defence and security trade fair in Villepinte on the outskirts of Paris, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

A person holds a placard in support of the Reform UK party in the middle of a junction in Winstanley, part of the Makerfield parliamentary constituency, in north west England on June 18, 2026, as voters go to the polls to vote in the Makerfield by-election. Britain holds a unique vote on June 18 that could trigger the endgame for Labour leader Keir Starmer's beleaguered premiership, or win him a reprieve. (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP)

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (L) reacts as he is presented a rubber bullet launcher of Verney-Carron by President of Rivolier Arnaud Van Robais at Eurosatory defence and security trade fair in Villepinte on the outskirts of Paris, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

A French airforce soldier ballasts the propellers of an Airbus military A400M Atlas plane after a joint military drill flight between French army and German army, at the 123 airforce Orleans-Bricy base in Bricy center France, on June 11, 2026. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)